Summary:

An eleven year old Bexley is walking home from the bus when she encounters the old man that everybody at her school was talking about. Immediately, she is creeped out yet slightly intrigued by this man. It isn't until he starts to tell her about a decades-old cold case that he has her full, undivided attention. Growing up with parents who had jobs that had to do with mysteries and dead-bodies, naturally, Bexley would be interested. Now, a sixteen year old Bexley and her best friend August venture through the house in which the people from the old man's story lived years ago. Everything is going as planned until the police come banging on the doors. What will Bexley and August do? Will they get caught? Find out in this suspense-filled story.